Suggesting a typology of musical listeners, Adorno (1976/1962) invites his readers to refine his proposed schema and to apply it to their real-world observations. This study takes up his invitation. It uses Adorno's typology to examine the responses of jazz critics and their implied audiences at a moment of profound innovation in the development of jazz, the introduction of Caribbean-influenced Cu-bop.
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